Warnings: Strong and Sexual Language; Violence, Gore, & Death
The next day, Vox Machina returned to Emon and entered the palace to share their newfound information with the King and his council. As they walked in, they could hear them discussing amongst each other with Fince speaking to the council.
"I've been gathering intelligence we sorely lack. Seems your band of fools have gone missing. Safe to say you've sent Vox Machina to their doom?" he remarked sarcastically. Okay, that hurt a bit, but they did almost die so Athena guess it wasn't far off.
"Doom? We don't know the meaning of the word," Scanlan proclaimed, making known of the presence and that they were very much alive. Probably a bit despising to Sir Fince to see them there and not in the belly of the dragon.
"Uh, I certainly don't," Grog said.
"Sovereign, hold on to your goddamn crown. We've discovered that the monster is none other than a blue dragon!" Scanlan proudly stated.
"We know," the council unimpressed remarked.
"So we came here for nothing, great," Athena thought. They could have sent them a message then instead of letting us climb up all those stairs. Armor can get pretty hot underneath.
"Did you kill it?" Allura asked.
"I wouldn't say "kill," really," Keyleth replied.
"We're still kind of working on that part," Pike added.
"I can't believe you made it out alive. How did you survive?" Krieg laughed. Athena gave him a side-eye. She didn't like that laugh of his for some reason.
"Mm, trade secrets, I'm afraid, Kriegy," Scanlan answered.
"We hid and it flew away," Percy plainly stated causing Grog to laugh while Scanlan gave out a dumbfounded expression that Percy admitted it.
"Wait. How did we survive that?" he asked. Suddenly, Vex groaned in pain grabbing her head. She must have sensed the dragon's presence. Athena could rule out Lady Allura since the pain didn't trigger for Vex on the skyship. Though that left technically left the four other people, she doubt that Kima or King Uriel would be in contact with the dragon. This left Krieg and Fince but the latter seemed to be doing the most suspicious activity.
"These blabbering fools are useless, sire. Perhaps if we made an offering to the dragon. Gold in exchange for peace?" Fince offered.
"Why don't we shake its hand and offer it a fucking pint while we're at it?" Vax sarcastically offered back.
"A dragon cannot be bartered with. If it desires Emon's destruction, it will not relent," Vex stated.
"You heard her, sire. You know what must be done," Kreig said agreeing with Vex.
"But what if it attacks the city? We'd be sitting ducks," Kima relented.
"What would you have me do? Let it burn more farmland, slaughter more innocents?," Uriel asked pounding his fist into the throne, "No. We will bring the fight to it on our terms. General, you may move our soldiers at dawn," Uriel ordered. Athena leaned towards Kima in this argument. She didn't think it was wise to send unprepared soldiers towards a dragon that could wipe them all out in an instant.
"But sire, you know as..."
"I have made my decision, Lady Kima. This council is adjourned," Uriel snapped. The guards came towards them and began pushing them towards the doors.
"All right, you heard him. Clear out!" the guard ordered.
"Hey, hey, hands off. I'm leaving. Geez," Pike said. Scanlan began weaving himself around the guard avoiding being pushed.
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